After all, the world has no choice but to pay attention to what the most populous country on Earth puts on its dinner plate.

"Whenever China goes from being a net exporter to a net importer of anything, it has a big impact on global prices," James Rice, chief of China operations for Tyson Foods, told The Guardian back in 2008.

With the advent of large-scale clone factories, however, the meat industry is poised to cut back on foreign beef imports in a big way. And that, too, will likely cause economic ripples across the planet.

But the factory isn't all about mass meat consumption. There are plans to clone police dogs, as well as thoroughbred horses.

Perhaps China's game of clones is all about winning us over with saccharine images of puppies and pigs. We have yet to see what the Tianjin cloning factory brings to the table. And, we may never know exactly how it brings it to the table.